Contractions II | Assessment Resource Banks

This task is about writing contractions as two words.

Tilo wrote a letter to the Chairperson of the School Board of Trustees to ask if the school could get an adventure playground. When writing a formal letter, it is important to write words in full instead of using contractions. The contractions in Tilo's letter have been underlined.

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Write each contraction as two words in the space next to the contraction. The first one has been done as an example.

Rata School

42 Hall Street

Motueka

Monday 23 August 2016

Dear Mr Heke

As you'll [you will] probably already know, there's been quite a few problems with kids getting into fights at lunchtime. The trouble is that we're getting bored because we haven't got enough to do. It's worse in winter because even if it isn't raining the grass is usually too wet to play on.

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Our class had a meeting and we've come up with an idea. We'd like to get an adventure playground for the school so that there'd be something to play on at lunchtime. Getting an adventure playground probably won't stop all the fights but we think it'll help. So does our teacher. She's right behind this idea and said she'll support us all the way. She said we should write to you about our idea because you're the one who's in charge.